I got a new PR in the Decline Bench during Vegan Vacation. I put up 270 lbs and almost got 280lbs. I've been really busy and in a different city each week for the past 3 weeks and have not had any days off for a bit over a month.

I've been taking a break from the gym because of my traveling, stress, etc.

But I'll get back down to business very soon.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes! It was actually your comments Sensless that kept me going on this log when I updated it daily last month. I'll do that again soon.

VE is awesome! I'd love to train with him on a regular basis. What a treat!

I'm glad to hear my chiding was useful! Ryan has suffered through it for years and anytime he really wants a good workout he calls me up so I can make him suffer again and motivate him (that's why he often gets PR's when training with me, the hatred!).

Perhaps sometime we can try to train together. Get some solid abuse with the iron in.

Good work on the decline. I used to use that (when I benched on a regular basis) to get comfortable with heavier weights in my hands and it helped my flat bench increase dramatically.

I look forward to the frequent updates again!

Perhaps if I start training with any sort of plan I'll start posting a journal again, but with the wedding planning going on my training is sporadic and unorganized at best. After the wedding it will be the solid effort I enjoy.

Yeah, to be honest, I really got after it in the gym and keeping a journal when you kept prodding me to do so. It was helpful!

When is your wedding? That is exciting!

I'll get back at it soon. I had some good lifts recently so I want to keep that momentum going. I really think 300lbs in the decline isn't too far off. I almost got 280 and I was recoving from being sick and was short on sleep that day.

So I'm getting there. I'll keep the journal going again soon. If not, I'm sure I'll hear about it from you

davidtarrfoster and I trained upper body today. I'm too tired to write out the whole list but we did 2 exercises for chest, back, shoulders, biceps and triceps. We were there a little longer than 90 minutes, so we'll cut it down a bit for next time.

It is great to be back in the gym! Then we watched bodybuilding videos and ate Thai food and had some Vega

Last night davidtarrfoster and I trained chest, triceps and biceps. It was good, tough and nearly 90 minutes.

I got up to 100's in each hand for dumbbell press, then we did a machine decline press, I got around 270lbs on that, and then some pec-deck sqeezes. We did triceps extensions, skull crushers, biceps dumbbell curls, and then some one-arm cable curls.

Ask Daywalker, Crystal, davidtarrfoster, Veganpotter and others about that. I was barbell squating for about 6 weeks, and during the Vegan Vacation my back snapped again and it was very painful. I couldn't do much the rest of the week except complain. I re-injure my injured back about every 4 months, so that is why I stayed away from squats for a couple of years. I tried 6-8 weeks to make a return and think I even started a thread (my return to squats!) but it isn't working out.

I don't have great form, and my lower back is so injury-prone it makes each set pretty scary.

I'd like to do them, but same with deadlifts, I try and my back snaps and it makes it hard to walk, etc. I have a history of spine issues with exercises involving the lower back.

But I'm going to keep moving forward, I'll just have to focus on other things.

You've gotta start taking yoga...your flexability is terrible and I think it would really help you out a bunch...I've always been terribly flexible and I've never hurt my back...its only been sore from overtraining/fatigue but never injury